Jane Kenyon’s “The Pond at Dusk” is a quiet, mischievous reckoning with nature and mortality. Our critic A.O. Scott plumbs ...

Young people are losing touch with nature – but poetry can help them reconnect, reflect and care more deeply about the world ...

These lovely short poems for kids will get the little ones excited to read stanza after stanza Short poems for kids that ...

I especially like the book's title poem, "Nature's Pride," and its connection to America. In one of the stanzas, Maki writes: Advertisement. Article continues below this ad.

Black Nature features work by contemporary writers, alongside poems by writers like Phillis Wheatley, who was born in Africa in the mid-18th century and brought to America as a slave in 1761.

Ogden Nash, who died in 1971 and contributed more than three hundred poems to this magazine, was born on August 19, 1902. In tribute to Nash—and to the … Skip to main content ...